Webinars

The Antisemitism in Comparative Perspective Seminar Series

Anti-Judaism, or the controversial term coined in the 1870s by Wilhelm Marr, Antisemitism, is one of the most complex and, at times, perplexing forms of hatred. It spans history, infecting different societies, religious and philosophical movements, and even civilizations. In the aftermath of the Holocaust, some contend that Antisemitism illustrates the limitations of the Enlightenment and modernity itself. Manifestations of Antisemitism emerge in numerous ideological based narratives and the constructed identities of belonging and otherness such as race and ethnicity, nationalisms, and anti-nationalisms.

The ISGAP seminar series aims to explore this subject matter in a comprehensive, interdisciplinary framework from an array of approaches and perspectives as well as regional contexts. Eminent scholars and researchers are invited to present seminar papers in an informal setting.

Chair: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Executive Director, ISGAP; Research Scholar, St. Antony’s College

Seminars are open to the university community and the interested public

June 22, 2020 “Corona and the Jews”

Professor Yossi Shain, Romulo Betancourt Professor of Political Science, Head of the Aba Eben Program of Diplomacy and Co-Chair of the MA Program in Political Leadership, Tel Aviv University; Professor Emeritus of Politics, Georgetown University
Location: Zoom Webinar
Time: 11:00 AM
(Video Link)

June 15, 2020, “Emerging Antisemitism in the United States in a Time of Discontent”

Dr. Charles Asher Small, Executive Director, ISGAP; Research Scholar, St. Antony’s College, Oxford
Location: Zoom Webinar
Time: 11:00 AM
(Video Link)

June 10, 2020 “The sources of Israel’s Territorial Sovereignty Over Jerusalem and its Historical Homeland under International Law”

Dr. Jacques Gauthier, Canadian International Lawyer and Scholar
Location: Zoom Webinar
Time: 11:00 AM
(Video Link)

June 8, 2020 “Is Corona-Inspired Antisemitism a New Phenomenon?”

Professor Dina Porat, Head of the Kantor Center for the Study of Contemporary European Jewry, Tel Aviv University; Chief Historian of Yad Vashem
Location: Zoom Webinar
Time: 11:00 AM
(Video Link)

June 4, 2020 “The Festering Wound: Racism in the United States, where do we go from here?”

Dr. Charles Asher Small, Executive Director, ISGAP; Research Scholar, St. Antony’s College, Oxford
Dr. Sunni Ali, Northeastern Illinois University
Dr. Harold V. Bennett, Chair, Department of Philosophy and Religion, Morehouse College
Professor Ansel Brown, Visiting Assistant Professor, North Carolina Central University School of Law 
Dr. Victoria Kamsler, Former Lecturer at Princeton University and Wellesley College
Dr. Carlton Long, CEO, Lawrence-Long & Co. Educational Consulting
Professor Katya Gibel Mevorach, Anthropology and American Studies, Grinnell College
Professor Abebe Zegeye, Bahir Dar University, Ethiopia
Location: Zoom Webinar
Time: 11:00 AM
(Video Link)

June 3, 2020 “UNRWA War on the Jews: Holding UNRWA Donors Responsible”

Dr. Arnon Groiss, Scholar of Middle Eastern Studies, former Israel Broadcasting Authority Journalist
David Bedein, Director, the Center for Near East Policy Research
Location: Zoom Webinar
Time: 11:00 AM
(Video Link)

June 1, 2020 “The 3D Test and IHRA Definition: Tools to Combat Antisemitism”

Natan Sharansky, Chair of ISGAP
Location: Zoom Webinar
Time: 11:00 AM
(Video Link)

May 27, 2020 “Social Justice, Human Rights, Cosmopolitanism and their Enemies – Jewishness and the Jewish State”

Dr. Eli Vinokur, Gordon College of Education and the School of Tourism at the University of Haifa
Location: Zoom Webinar
Time: 11:00 AM
(Video Link)

May 25, 2020 “Jihadism in 1948″

Professor Benny Morris, Department of History and Middle Eastern Studies, Ben-Gurion University
Location: Zoom Webinar
Time: 11:00 AM
(Video Link)

May 20, 2020 “Where do we go from here? Combating Racism and Antisemitism in the 21st Century”

Dr. Charles Asher Small, Executive Director, ISGAP; Research Scholar, St. Antony’s College, Oxford
Dr. Carlton Long, CEO, Lawrence-Long & Co. Educational Consulting
Dr. Sunni Ali, Northeastern Illinois University
Dr. Victoria Kamsler, Former Lecturer at Princeton University and Wellesley College
Professor Katya Gibel Mevorach, Anthropology and American Studies, Grinnell College
Dr. Kevin Rome, President, Fisk University
Location: Zoom Webinar
Time: 11:00 AM
(Video Link)

May 18, 2020 “Mid-East Strategy in the Time of the Virus: The Key Dynamics in mid-2020″

Dr. Jonathan Spyer, Executive Director, Middle East Center for Reporting and Analysis; Research Associate, Jerusalem Center for Security and Strategy; Fellow, Middle East Forum
Location: Zoom Webinar
Time: 11:00 AM
(Video Link)

May 13, 2020 “All American Antisemitism through Replacement Feminism”

Professor Amy Elman, William Weber Chair of Social Science, Kalamazoo College
Location: Zoom Webinar
Time: 11:00 AM
(Video Link)

May 11, 2020 “Corona Antisemitism in the Middle East”

Professor Uzi Rabi, Director, The Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, Tel-Aviv University
Location: Zoom Webinar
Time: 11:00 AM
(Video Link)

May 4, 2020 “The Muslim Brotherhood in the West”

Dr. Lorenzo Vidino, Director of the Program on Extremism at George Washington University
Location: Zoom Webinar
Time: 11:00 AM
(Video Link)

Apr. 29, 2020 “The War of Return: How Western Indulgence of the Palestinian Dream has Obstructed the Path to Peace”

Dr. Adi Schwartz, Israeli Researcher and Author
Dr. Einat Wilf, Israeli Intellectual, Author and former Member of the Knesset
Location: Zoom Webinar
Time: 11:00 AM
(Video Link)

Apr. 27, 2020 “Muslim Mystics and Contemporary Antisemitism – Reconsidering Sufi Heritage”

Professor Giuseppe Cecere, Associate Professor, Department of History and Cultures, L-OR/12 Arabic Language and Literature, Director of First Cycle Degree of Anthropology, Religions, Oriental Civilizations, University of Bologna
Location: Zoom Webinar
Time: 11:00 AM
(Video Link)